The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-13
HERE AND THERE.


II is now conceded that the Arizona train
robbers got more than $4,000.
Lumber is selling In the Crur d. Alcne
mines at $40 per thousand feet.
Nine cables are used to tell the daily story OF
Europe to America and America to Europe.
Three thousand dollars per month Is the
size OF the payroll Of the Mlddletown asylum.
An Ice.maklng machine has been placed on
the new man-of-war Boston, the first instance
OF the kind.
There is a storage reservoir for irrigation
building In Arizona which will hold 1900,
1000 gallons
One Of the sights at San Bernardlno, Cal,
is three banana trees, each bearing from six
to eight large punches.
The Oregon editors met thirty-four in mum
Der, inYakina City, on the 18th, and formed
an editorial association.
1t is estimated that twenty-five thousand
Bostonians attended the band concert at
Point of Pines on Sunday.
There will be 10000 sacks OF black mustard,
worth ~ cents per pound, 20 to waste In Santa
Barbara county the present season.
A California woman has sued for divorce
from her husband because for eighteen years
he has gone to bed with his boots on.
The Grand Army of the Republic at Los
Angeles is to take four carloads of grapes to
st. Louis with it to give away to visitors.
A French chemist has dsproved the idea
that liquid can not be solidfed by pressure
alone BY solidifyng the bchloride of carbon.
A Harvard professor ran through the streets
of Connecticut town the other day to catch
train and narrowly escaped being arrested as
lunatc.
The president OF the Fat Mems club in
Hudson county, New Jersey, weighs All
pounds, and the committee of reception a.
DIG pounds.
At Seymour, Ont, the other day man was
found dead in the woods, and beside the dead
body little child, too young TO give any in
formation was playing
New jerseys state prison holds S6) CON
victs, of whom l40 neither read nor write. Sept
] night school will be opened, to be in session
two hours each evening.
St. Johns, Mich, lady while walking
along the principal street there the other day
did not know that a sparrow sat on her hustle
enjoying the pleasant ride.
Miss Della Beck, the heaviest girl in Penn
sylvana, weighs 493 pounds and is as graceful
as the majority Of girls OF one-fourth the
weight She lives at Apollo
The people who are drowned while bathing
are generally swimmers overconfident OF their
powers. 1t is the timid bather who is scarce
ly ever caught going beyond his depth.
new member of congress describes himself
in the official directory of the house in this
way: ~ am six feet tall, weigh 2lO pounds,
Dhave soft auburn hair, and large blue eyes
'cycler who has returned TO his home In
Maplewood, N. j., after trip through Europe
and Africa on his tricycle. says he covered
twelve thousand miles at an expense OF $500.
Gov Knott, of Kentucky, at the expiration
OF his term of Office, will settle in Louisville
and perhaps become a journalist. He is said
to have his eye on the United States senate
now.
A station is to be established in St. Peters
burg for the examination OF food materials Of
fered for sale In the city. 1t will be under the
charge Of scientists appointed by the govern
ment.
Caterpillars have appeared in Houston coun-
~, Georgia. in large numbers. They have
done little damage as yet, but will soon clear
up things II they are as aggressive as those oil
last season.
A North Carolina man has given the ladies'
aid society of his church five thousand
cigarettes TO be sold for the benevolent objects
of the society. Some people have queer ideas
Of doing good.
Among the passengers on the steamer UNI
bria, now three days out, are twenty-four
medical doctors. who come to attend the In
ternatonal medical congress at Washington
on September g.
From S., 900, 900 to $1,000 900 worth of gold
is used annually in the shape Of foil for gild-
ing lettering, edging of books, sign and orna-
mental painting and dentistry. gliding taking
the greater share.
The demand for lumber at San Diego must
be brisk when steam tugs are racing up the
coast to Mendocino, towing sailing vessels
seven hundred miles against prevailing winds
for return cargoes.
The White mountains have come to be |
worth over 81, 5000 year to the people OF
New Hampshire. In 1874 the tourist business |
in that section was scarcely $4,000 No ac
count is taken Of the gains Of the railroads In |
this estimate.
The sales OF real estate at San Jose, Cal,
Aug. II amounted to s6,500OOO. The small
margining practices Of the early days of the
boom have entirely ceased, and gold coin
plankcd down by men OF means, mainly from
outside sections, is now the rule
Here is a postscript to girls letter, as
quoted by London Truth: when you write
...o e., oon a1a,ca twa ouaefinna.